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Keeping ahead of computers, Jakub Langr looks at the myth and reality in arti�icial intelligence

care stories concerning the impact artifi cial intelligence (AI) will have on society

abound. Whether based on fears of losing control of amoral, hyper-smart computers, or more prosaically on the narrowing of human usefulness as machines become more capable.

We review what business leaders and academics are saying, and make some predictions of our own in order to sift the likely from the far-fetched. We’ll look at what AI is good at, and doing now, and where the human brain still has the edge. T en we’ll review forecast developments